Lawmakers pass HOS amendment bill

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill amending the law on its subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS). The amendment bill proposes that an applicant must be a permanent resident aged at least 25, as opposed to the current minimum age requirement of just 18.The bill also proposes that a points-based system be adopted for the allocation of HOS flats, replacing the current system in which applicants for HOS flats are divided into different groups

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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HK court gives maid hospital order for killing boy

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s High Court yesterday imposed a hospital order on a domestic helper who strangled her employer’s two-and-half-year-old son.Arshdeep Kaur, 24, had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter after attacking the boy at the family’s home in Tin Shui Wai two years ago.She has a mental illness and is to be treated in hospital for an indeterminate period.PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN OUR PRINT EDITION.

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Mick Schumacher eyes GP victory

BERLIN – Mick Schumacher will attempt to follow in his famous father’s footsteps on Sunday when he races in the Macau Grand Prix to decide arguably the world’s best Formula Three driver.“It’s great to be back in Macau, it was a fantastic season for the whole team and I’m proud to be coming here as European champion,” Mick Schumacher, 19, said after arriving in Macau with his Italian Prema Team.“This is the race that every Formula Three driver wants to win. I’ll try my best to

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Barbecue restaurant kitchen damaged in fire

A fire at the well-known Lam Kei barbecue restaurant in Areia Preta damaged the kitchen in the early hours of yesterday, according to a statement by the Fire Service Bureau (CB).According to the statement, the restaurant’s electric oven is believed to have overheated, which might have caused the fire. The blaze was put out by the restaurant’s sprinkler system, which stopped the fire spreading.The statement said the bureau received a report from a passer-by about the fire at 8:12 a.m.

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Theodore Racing’s Zhou says rain ‘more thrilling’ for GP

The local weather station predicts rain during the four days of the Macau Grand Prix which starts tomorrow, but the gloomy forecast hasn’t dampened mainland Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu’s spirit, saying yesterday that rain would make the race all the more thrilling.The 19-year-old made the comments when he was with his teammates including Michael Schumacher’s son Mick, Estonia’s Ralf Aron, New Zealand’s Marcus Armstrong and Russia’s Robert Shwartzman during the SJM Theodore Racing by

November 14, 2018 | BY admin

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Xi urges HK & Macau to embrace nation’s reform, expects ‘sincere patriotism’

BEIJING – President Xi Jinping yesterday voiced the hope that Hong Kong and Macau will further develop themselves by embracing the nation’s cause of reform and opening-up.Compatriots in Hong Kong and Macau are expected to continue participating in the country’s reform and opening-up with sincere patriotism and pioneering spirit, attain the greater development of the two special administrative regions (SARs) by promoting the development of the country, and jointly work for national

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Chui to head GBA commission

The government announced yesterday the setting-up of a special commission that will coordinate Macau’s participation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), which comprises 11 cities including 9 in Guangdong. According to an executive order gazetted yesterday, the commission will be headed by Chief Executive Chui Sai On and comprise a number of senior officials such as the government’s five policy secretaries and chief of customs. The order takes effect today. Earlier

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Special needs school to move to ex-Canidrome: Tam

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said yesterday that an area on the plot of land where the former greyhound racetrack is located will be used for the new campus of the private Concordia School for Special Education.Tam made the remarks when visiting the current campus of the special needs school – located on the first to the third floors of the south block of Zhu Kuan Building in Rua de Madrid in Nape, with its entrance on the ground floor.During his visit to the

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Mangkhut causes 1.55 billion pataca loss: govt

The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said yesterday it estimates that September’s Super Typhoon Mangkhut caused Macau financial losses of 1.55 billion patacas – 520 million patacas in direct losses and 1.03 billion patacas in indirect ones.Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which pummelled Macau on September 16, caused 40 injuries.Residents have, in general, praised the government for the significant improvements in its disaster response to Super Typhoon Mangkhut, compared to when Super Typhoon

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Schoolgirl on zebra crossing hit by car

An 18-year-old schoolgirl was hit by a car yesterday morning when she was on a zebra crossing near the S. Francisco Barracks, the police said.According to the police, the accident happened at around 7 a.m. in Estrada de S. Francisco – a hillside road running up from the barracks to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre. The car hit the pupil when she was walking across the zebra crossing at the junction of the road and Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues.The victim suffered abrasions

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Mainlander uses tissue to scam currency exchange gang

The police said yesterday they have arrested a mainlander for allegedly scamming a currency exchange gang by using tissue paper piled in between two HK$1,000 banknotes to make it look like there was HK$110,000 which he attempted to exchange into 98,285 yuan.Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon announced the case yesterday at a regular press briefing in Zape.According to Leng, police officers on duty in Cotai arrested the 24-year-old mainland man surnamed Wu on Saturday.Judiciary Police

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Light-fest to get VR, food trucks this year

Virtual reality (VR) experiences and food trucks are some of the new elements in this year’s Macau Light Festival which will take place from December 2-31, it was announced yesterday.Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said at a press conference held at Macau Tower that the budget for the event, which will illuminate the city and its old quarters throughout the festive month, was 18.5 million patacas, a 2.5 percent increase from last year’s as

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Xi praises Macau’s role in nation’s reform & opening-up: Chui

President Xi Jinping yesterday praised Macau’s role in the nation’s reform and opening up process over the past 40 years, while outlining four hopes for Macau to contribute further to national development, Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On told reporters in Beijing, according to a statement by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS). The GCS statement pointed out that Xi delivered an important speech while hosting Hong Kong and Macau delegations together at the Great Hall of the

November 13, 2018 | BY admin

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Govt mulls more night tourism events: tourism chief

Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes attending yesterday’s Macau Forum as a guest speaker said that the government was studying the possibility of launching more night tourism events.Senna Fernandes said that the government aimed for more night tourism products to encourage more tourists to choose to travel around the city after sunset, in an attempt to reduce the pressure caused by the large number of tourists travelling around the city during the

November 12, 2018 | BY admin

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